In my eight years at the bank, I was incompetent at one job after another. At
various times I was a branch banking trainee, project manager, computer
programmer, product manager, lending officer, budget supervisor, and a few
other jobs I’ve forgotten.
I never stayed in one job long enough to develop any
legitimate competence, and I’m not entirely sure additional experience would
have helped in my case. It seemed as if my only valuable skill were interviewing
for the next job.
I got hired for almost every job I pursued in the bank, and each
was a promotion and a raise. It was starting to seem as if I might be able to
interview my way to some sort of senior executive position in which no one
would notice I was totally skill free. That was my hope.
My banking career ended when my boss called me into her office and
informed me that the order had come down to stop promoting white males. The
press had noticed that senior management was composed almost entirely of
white males, and the company needed to work harder to achieve something
called diversity. No one knew how many years that might take, so I put my
résumé together and sent it to some of the other big companies in the area.
I had
officially failed at my banking career and, against all odds, my incompetence
wasn’t the cause.The local phone company, Pacific Bell, unwisely offered me a job, and I
accepted. Once again I got a big raise, thanks to my interviewing skills and the
fact that I had nearly completed my MBA at Berkeley, attending classes at night.
I looked great on paper. Little did they realize that looking good on paper was
my best skill.
A few weeks after I left my job at Crocker, an acquiring bank fired everyone
in the department I’d left behind. My failure as a banker allowed me to escape to
a new job before the firing.
This was one of many examples in which the
universe makes sure there isn’t much of a link between job performance in the
corporate world and outcomes.
🤔 Умозаключение - Авторът е лалджия от класа! 😆 Май за него бех чел, че се престорил на "меринджеймънт консултант" и ходил да обучава меринджеите в неква топ IT компания, на добри меринджеймънт практики и му изсипали сумати пари преди да се усетят (не помня дали въобще се бяха усетили).
About 60 percent of my job at Pacific Bell involved trying to look busy. I was
in charge of budgeting, and the actual work was far from challenging, even for
me.
Most of my budget spreadsheets had formula errors, but that didn’t matter
because all of the inputs from the various departments were complete lies and
bullshit.
If anything, my errors probably smoothed out some of the bullshit and
made it closer to truth. It was a truly absurd existence.
Насирам се като го чета тоя! 😆 Заха, ей тъй трябваше да си напишеш GitHub романчето. По-малко хранеж към конкретни хора - повече изобличаване на Outsourcing простотията!
П.П. Но ти никога не успя да проумееш в какво се състои "Outsourcing простотията" затова се фокусира да храниш разни меринджейки и HR-ки дето не ти пуснаха (като пълен мухльо), че и хора дето с нищо не са виновни.
Аз се запознах в дълбочина с "процесите" и простотията в Scale, а и знам страшно много за това как "правилно" трябва да "работят нещата" (нещо което ти само "предполагаш и вярваш, че знаеш") та мога да ги "срина със земята", разказвайки някои неща, но нямам "мотивация" (парична) за да се занимавам с такива глупости.